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What apps do you subscribe to for your phone?

I don’t mean the one time cost for a download but what apps do you find are worth the recurring $10 a month or $100 a year, or whatever?

For me, NYT full access subscription, Wall Street Journal and Chess.com. (Hey, I didn’t say I was cool or interesting…)
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
None at all.

My 'phone is not linked to the Internet but even if it was, the less clutter and fewer gimmicks on it, the better.

I have sometimes seen friends' smart-phones' home-screens, and watched the owners flick through page after page of symbols for one programme or link after another... dozens of them.


By comparison, my computer has apart from Microsoft WIN-11 and some of its normal accessories, plus Firefox, BT e-mail and Norton protection:

MS Office for Windows XP (so 'Word', 'Excel', 'PowerPoint', possibly 'Access' too),

The HP Printer driver,

Only 2 general social-media accounts - but NOT Facebook or Twitter - plus a couple specific to my interests.

and some third-party programmes:

two of CAD, one measurements-units converter / calculator and one special geological survey tool.


None of these, except the Norton, are on subscription.

The PC came already loaded with WIN_10 which MS later un-obligingly changed to W11.

I bought 'Office for XP' and the two CAD programmes as single, up-front purchases.

The converter and survey tools were free from elsewhere.


There are no games, no wi-fi, no Bluetooth (is that a dental complaint indigenous to Artic regions?), no camera, no microphone, no entertainments accounts (films, music, TV).